Emilio proposes fusing your immediate surroundings and your painting, without prior sketching nor any predetermined composition; directly and without trial, with no intent of getting it right or producing beautiful paintings.

It doesn’t matter if the end result is a figurative or abstract piece, or both at once. What matters is that your work resounds with the environment in a genuine and direct manner.

Difficulty

Mindset — This quarantine requires a high level of detachment from the most deeply-rooted tendencies of the painting practice: the quest for a beautiful result and the craving to display what you do well.

Technical requirements — Basic oil painting skills.

Requirements

• Be open to recognizing that you may be painting for the wrong reasons, due in large part to an erroneous reward system.
• Be wary of external influences so as to be your own influence, looking into yourself through painting.
• Accept that beauty is found in the very risk of the process, not in controlling the results.

€1975

Installment payments available; ask us for more info.

• Program: Open Studio (no mentor)
• Guest artists: Vincent Desiderio, Henrik Uldalen, Nicolás Uribe, Jeremy Mann, Nadezda, Emilio Villalba
• Studio assistants: Pere Navarro, Carles Gomila
• Quarantine days: You’ll get quarantined +12 hours per day, 7 days, on a private island.
• Participants: 18 max. in the studio. 120 max. in the conference room
• Quarantine days: 7 days. 12h per day (yes, there will be breaks)
• Technical requirements: basic painting (oil, acrylic, etc.) and drawing skills
• Language: English
• Location: Lazaretto Island, Maó, Menorca (Spain)
• Activities: open studio with live model (6 hours a day), art talks and masterclasses with guest artists
• NOT included: Mentorship, boot camp and workshop with one of the guest artists.
• Status: SOLD OUT
• Enrollment: registration is by application only. Applications are closed.